Vol- XV J Corrr.podcnr. 75 



Naturalist, Tlic, ;i Montli. Jouni. ot' \;it. Hist, lor NorUi of England, 

 Oct. -Doc, 1S97. 



Ornithologische Monatsberichte, V, Nos. 10-12, i8<>7. 



Osprey, The, II, Nos. 2, 3, 1897. 



Ottawa Naturalist, XI, Nos. 5, 6, 1897. 



Our Animal Friends, XXV, Nos. 2-4, 1S97. 



Science, (2) VI, Nos. 141-153, 1897. 



Shooting and Fishing, XXII, Nos. 21-25, XXIII, Nos. 1-8, 1897. 



Zoologist, The, (4) Nos. 10-12, 1S97. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Habits of the Maryland Yellow-throat. 



Editors of 'The Alk': — 



Dear Sirs: — If the correspondence pages of 'The Auk' are open to 

 minor matters of this kind, I should like to ask if the note on 'Peculiar 

 Nesting of the Maryland Yellow-throat' b}- Mr. Walton I. WhitehilP in 

 the October issue of 1897 makes a correct statement in regard to the 

 Maryland Yellow-throats of Minnesota when it says " the nests are usually 

 to be found in dense woods far from water." This is certainly diametri- 

 cally opposite to the habits of this bird in the eastern part of its range, 

 for here in New England I am sure that all observers will bear me out in 

 saj'ing that GeotJilypis trichas is verj- rarely and perhaps nevei- found 

 breeding at any distance from water. 



Yours very truly, 



Francis H. Allen. 



l]'est Roxbury, Mass. 



The Fauna of Muskeget Island — A Protest. 



Editors of ' The Auk ' : — 



Dear Sirs: — In a recent paper on the Terns of Muskeget Island,- Mr. 

 George H. Mackay records the extermination of a family of Short-eared 

 Owls that had established themselves on the island during the summer 



' [For Whitehill read Mitchell, Whitehill having been printed through 

 error. — Edd.] 



^ Auk, XIV, pp. 380-390. October, 1897. 



